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The Enduring Vision,
Fifth Edition
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Carleton College
et al.
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Chapter 26:
The Cold War Abroad and at Home, 1945-1952
- One historian has argued that President Truman was at least partly responsible
for McCarthyism and the popular obsession with communist subversion that
gripped the United States in the late 1940s and 1950s. Discuss your reasons
for either agreeing or disagreeing with that charge.
- Another historian observed, "If the Truman years represent an era of progress, however limited, in civil
rights [for black Americans], they represent an era of retrogression in civil liberties [free exercise of the rights guaranteed in the First Amendment]." Discuss the statement and support or refute it with specific evidence from
Chapter 26.
- Discuss the origins of the Cold War.
- What was the containment policy? How did the Truman administration implement
it in Europe and Asia?
- Discuss the differences between President Truman and General Douglas MacArthur
on how to conduct the Korean War. Was the president justified in firing the general? Why or why not?
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